Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time.

- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson


It is well that war is so terrible, we should grow to fond of it.

- General Robert E. Lee

Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead!

- Admiral David Farragut

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be disolved. I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

- Abraham Lincoln, 1858

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.  War is cruelty, and and you cannot refine it.

- General William Tecumseh Sherman

No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.  I propose to move immediately upon your works.

- General Ulysses Simpson Grant